Authors notes: Well this is it folks…the moment you have all been waiting for…the identity of Listener is finally revealed…geeez, I hope that this means you won't stop reading. I mean the fic is going to continue after this is done. Anyhoo I won't keep you in suspense any longer on to the fic!!! Disclaimer: Ranma ˝ is property of Rumiko Takahashi. In other words Ranma doesn't belong to me, and I'm using the characters without permission. But I should warn you it's useless to sue me because I have no money what so ever…Oh and this story belongs to me.

Letters from Nabiki part 6
A Ranma ˝ fanfic by Crikit

From: n_tendo@new_world.com
Date: February 23, 1999
To: listener@new_world.com
Subject: (none)

YOU BASTARD! I can't believe what you did to me…All this time, you knew, you knew who I was. What I looked like, where I lived…everything about me. While I, I knew nothing. I poured my heart out to you. Told you things about myself I would never tell anyone else…and how do you respond? You betray me! You make me look like a complete and total idiot. I thought you cared for me. Was that just a lie to? Just like you not knowing my father or my sisters?

I realize now that when you said that I told you about Ryoga and the others that was a lie. Everything you told me was a lie. 'Listener' was a lie. All the time I was writing to 'Listener' I was actually writing to Tatewaki Kuno…I told you how I felt all that time, thinking that I was writing a complete stranger. When in actuality it was that object of my affection that I was writing to.

DAMN IT KUNO! You could've stopped me from making a fool of myself, you should have. But no, you went on with your sick twisted ploy, to make Nabiki Tendo look like an idiot. So I hope your happy now that you know it worked. Don't pretend that you didn't see the way that people were looking at me and laughing in school today, I know you did…I know you were one of them. Go ahead tell me that you weren't laughing at me, I won't believe it. I probably deserve it though, for thinking that I of all people could find happiness. That was a stupid thing for me to think. Finding happiness with someone as unlucky in life as I am.

All this time…you've tried to help me find ways to get Ranma and Akane together, tried to help me help Kasumi. You didn't really want that. The reason you were helping me with Ranma and Akane was so you could get the two loves of your life to yourself…and the stuff with Kasumi. I don't even want to think about that. Could it be that you're in love with my sisters but not with me? If that's the case then Kuno I should tell you. Akane hates your guts, now more then before, and Kasumi doesn't like younger men. Even if she did, I don't she would go out with a guy that broke her sisters heart. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. During that little heart to heart I had with my sisters last night, I told them what happened in school. They really aren't impressed with you, and I think what little respect for you that they have at the moment will disappear the moment I tell them what else you've done to me.

Oh wait, they don't have respect for you…silly me, how could I forget? There's no respect for you in this house, only pity…and maybe now a lot of spite (you do know what spite means right? If not I suggest that you look it up, it will be a word you'll be hearing a lot in the future.) Yes Kuno that's right, only pity in this house. How can we respect someone who constantly tries to kill a future family member, and who has no respect for the honor of the women of this house? Plus we pity you for living with that psycho sister of yours...only maybe now I pity her for having to live with such a bastard of a brother. Is your father like that to? If so maybe that's the real reason your mother died.

Do I sound bitter and hurt Kuno? Gee, maybe that's because I am. Bitter, hurt, confused. I'm bitter because I thought you where my friend, that I could trust you with secrets and desires. Things that I would never share with my sisters or my so-called friends, but, what do you do? You take those things, and use them against me. Did you enjoy toying with my head? Or better yet with my heart? I hope so Kuno because it will be the last time that you'll ever get to do that. In fact it's the last time you'll ever get to do anything to me. From now on I'll avoid you like the plague you are. You hurt me, you really did.

I thought that…well I don't know what I thought, other then that you would love me. I just know that I thought something and that all of what I thought is gone. All the thoughts I had about us shattered the minute my heart broke. Now, I'm just confused about everything. I no longer know who I can and cannot trust. Who I can love or even if I can love. It's all your fault…all yours, everything that happened to me today and yesterday is your fault.

I'll never forgive you Kuno do you understand that? Never! So do us both a favor, don't come near my family or me, don't look at us, don't talk to us…don't even think about talking to us. Just leave us alone. If you don't I promise, you'll be so sorry you didn't…

Nabiki


Letters to Nabiki Part 6
A Ranma ˝ fanfic by Crikit

From: listener@newworld.com
Date: February 24, 1999
To: n_tendo@newworld.com
Subject: Does that mean that I am not forgiven?

I take it by the email that you sent me a couple of days ago that you are a tad upset with me. Oh, whom am I kidding? You're more then a tad upset, you're down right pissed off with me.

But you know what Nabiki. Everyone lies; it's part of human nature. We lie for various reasons, maybe we want to appear better to someone or make ourselves believe something, or maybe, just maybe Nabiki…maybe we don't want to hurt people that we love.

Look, I know I lied to you, but you lied to me and to yourself as well. You always said that you are heartless, that you have no feelings and care for no one other then yourself, but that's not true and I've told you that numerous times over the course of our emails. I can see it, your sisters can see it but why can't you see it? Why can't you see that you aren't heartless, that you aren't as you have said a complete and total bitch? If anything this should prove that to you, for one who is heartless and cold would not react the way that you have.

Nabiki I wish there was some way for me to explain all my actions over the past little while explain why everything happened as it has. But I can't…I can't think of anything to say to explain. I know there are reasons and I know that they are good reasons at least to me they are. It's like a question that has an answer that you don't know. You know that the question has an answer and you know that you don't know what the answer is, at least not when you need it the most. But you also know that eventually you will find the answer to that question, you just don't know where or when or how or even why, you just know that you will find the answer.

That's how it is with me, I know there are reasons but I don't know what they are, and I don't know when I will find them out. But please Nabiki you have to believe me when I say, I never meant to hurt you like I did. I never meant to hurt you at all. But of course you will never believe that. I should have told you right from the start, should have come out and said something when you told me who you loved, and I shouldn't have said what I said when you came up to me in school. Should however is not what matters here. What matters is that I didn't tell you from the start, I didn't tell you when you said who you loved, and I did say the wrong thing when you came up to me at school. And because of all the actions that I did or did not do, I know a few things.
1. I have hurt someone that I have known for most of my life. Said someone also being a person that I care very deeply about, though they will never believe that now.
2. Because of my actions I have destroyed a persons image in a very big way.
And last but not least…
3. I must find a way to put myself back into the good books of the person that I hurt, and make them see that I never meant to and never will hurt them.

I truly mean number three Nabiki. I will find a way to make this up to you, to make you forgive me. Even if it takes me the rest of my life I will, and I guess the best place for me to start is in school. I promise you that I will try everything in my power to undo what has been done to your honor in school, or my name is not Tatewaki Kuno the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Oh come on. Admit it. That made you smile just a little bit.

Alas, the time has come for me to end this begging for forgiveness. I do hope that you will consider it and respond either that or feel enough anger with it that you will write me a bitter rant targeted at my heart. I will accept either, for both mean that you are at least talking to me in some form.

Good bye my love.
Tatewaki